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Senior Commercial Counsel, Hardware & Carrier Partnerships

Hark · San Jose · On-site

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About Hark

At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.

About the role

Hark is seeking an exceptional Senior Commercial Counsel, Hardware & Carrier Partnerships to serve as a key legal partner to our Hardware, Product, Business Development, Operations, Finance, and Go-to-Market teams. You will lead the structuring and negotiation of some of Hark's most important commercial relationships, with a particular focus on wireless carriers, device distribution, retail and channel partnerships, connectivity arrangements, and the commercialization of Hark's consumer hardware products.

What they're looking for

  • A J.D. and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
  • 7+ years of relevant legal experience, including experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house at a technology, telecommunications, consumer-electronics or hardware company
  • Significant experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial and technology transactions
  • Direct experience negotiating with wireless carriers, telecommunications companies, device manufacturers, distributors or major retail/channel partners
  • Strong understanding of the economics and commercial dynamics of carrier and device-distribution relationships
  • A demonstrated ability to lead complex negotiations independently and move transactions from initial strategy through signature
More about this role

Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.

We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.

To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.

Hark is seeking an exceptional Senior Commercial Counsel, Hardware & Carrier Partnerships to serve as a key legal partner to our Hardware, Product, Business Development, Operations, Finance, and Go-to-Market teams.

You will lead the structuring and negotiation of some of Hark's most important commercial relationships, with a particular focus on wireless carriers, device distribution, retail and channel partnerships, connectivity arrangements, and the commercialization of Hark's...

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